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It’s been two years since I sat down with 30 potential Conservative voters for BBC2’s Newsnight and asked them whom they’d like to follow into the next election. Their answer was nearly unanimous: the heretofore unknown and obscure David Cameron. And it’s been a year since I sat down with 30 potential Labour voters and asked whom they wanted to follow Tony Blair. Their answer: the colourful and avuncular John Reid. Apparently the party wasn’t listening.
A few days ago, with a new Prime Minister approaching his 100th day, I once again started a Newsnight conversation with the elusive but essential swing voters to ask whether it was time for a change (yes) and time for a snap election (perhaps). What surprised me most of all was that the group seems to think the time is now . . . for Gordon Brown.
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Herbert Thornton
September 27th, 2007 6:18pmFrank Luntz's analysis makes some good points, but like both the Labour and Tory Parties, he ignores two factors - the widespread dismay at the extent, nature, and effects of immigration, and the equally widespread dislike of many of the effects of integration with Europe.
Sadly, a great many people feel we now have only two choices - either to vote for the BNP or to simply not vote.
We should now ponder what Edmund Burke said - that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Stan(expat)
September 29th, 2007 6:20amBrown has also been helped enormously by very sympathetic press reporting, treating him as tho' he was someone truly new instead of the number two man behind "New" Labour from the very start.